Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons — a 24-year veteran who joined the FDNY a few months before 9/11—  was named Deputy Chief ...

An FDNY officer who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become the highest-ranked ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons will be promoted to deputy chief on Friday, becoming the first woman in the department to ...

A man killed in an apartment fire in Bay Ridge on Sunday has been identified as Gregory Fernandez, a 37-year-old Navy veteran ...

“They were able to engage, but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY Commissioner Robert ... the department,” she said. “I think we have to learn to respect the spaces for fire hydrants ...

Parked cars blocked the two closest fire hydrants as firefighters responded ... but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker told reporters Sunday.

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons, a 24-year veteran of the FDNY, will be promoted to deputy chief during a ceremony on Friday.

NEW YORK -- A fire in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn turned deadly overnight, and the FDNY says parked cars were ... it's unclear if or how the vehicles impacted the department's response.

A 37-year-old man was killed and a woman and toddler critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment ... “They were able to engage, but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY ...